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Show PINGKEE, NEW BOOM CITY ON SHORT LINE Pingreo is the name of a new town on the Oregon Short Line that will prove a record breaker for activity and rapid upbuilding. Tne railroad has not been but there yet, but the hotel and store have already been completed. com-pleted. Tho new branch from More-land More-land down through rhe fertile valley6 to the south and west has been graded grad-ed and will bo laid with steel by June first, and already Plngree has been esipblSshed in the center of this rich valley, about midway down on the tiew line. It Is destined to be one ot the liveliest towns In Idaho for the next few years, taking plnco with Twin Falls and other boom places of tho rewiy Irrigated districts. Moreland Is on the Salmon river branch, a short distance out from Blackfoot, and the now line runs from Moreland, on this branch, southwesterly to tap this valley val-ley that will be watered from the Snake by the American Falls company. Plngree therefore can be better located locat-ed by showing that it will be about twenty miles tq the southwest of Uliickfont. Idaho has performed some-wonderful some-wonderful feats In railroading, Irrigation Irriga-tion and town building, bufthe way Plngree Is being built up to await the railroad is truly wonderful. |